Membrane morphology is actively transformed by covalent binding of the protein Atg8 to PE-lipids.

Autophagy is a cellular degradation pathway involving the shape transformation of lipid bilayers. During the onset of autophagy, the water-soluble protein Atg8 binds covalently to phosphatdylethanolamines (PEs) in the membrane in an ubiquitin-like reaction coupled to ATP hydrolysis. We reconstituted...

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Main Authors: Roland L Knorr, Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Reinhard Lipowsky, Tobias Baumgart, Rumiana Dimova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4270758?pdf=render